from the desk of stinkpot

craigslist is our travel agent for boston; following used bike listings keeps taking us to new parts of the city. a couple of weeks ago, in the hopes of finding a $100 bianchi road bike, we made our way to hingham, on boston’s south shore. [unfortunately, we were out of luck. the nice old woman […]

it’s been a rough couple of days. thursday morning, i get a call from my gastroenterologist. apparently, my polyp had a pre-cancerous adenoma in it. [bad polyp, bad!] that doubly sucks: 1) i had something with the word “cancer” in me (scary even with the prefix pre-). 2) i’ll have to start getting regular colonoscopies […]

the weekend before my quals, i decided to relax a bit and go camping on the boston harbor islands with some friends. we had a great time and i took some nice photos. getting out to the islands is easy — you just take the subway to the ferry run by the national park service. […]

radiator farm — somerville, ma.

after 23.9 years, i’m ready to blow this popsicle stand. i saw the arcade fire live in concert this week and i can now die happy. [if you've never heard of the arcade fire, be like ex-lax and perform this smooth move: go to the library and take out their albums. or buy them if […]

christina’s birthday was on april 22nd. since she had midterms the following week, we kept things pretty low-key that day. however, we did celebrate in true filipino fashion: we had a breakfast of canned-meats and rice. (spam, corned beef, vienna sausage … say these words aloud to some filipinos and you’ll be accused of trying […]

neat blog post about how to start taking good candid photos.  #1,#3,#4,#9, & #10 i think are super-important.

i spent a lot of time puttering around my grandparents’ house in the philippines, poking into corners and rummaging through bookshelves (i lived there for about 3 weeks in february, earlier this year). one interesting book that turned up was a wacky self-help tome written by a german psychoanalyst around the turn of last century. […]

this blog is like the pony express – it takes about two weeks for news to get communicated. for instance, i’m finally going to post some photos i took from the passover seder christina and i crashed at the beginning of april. aside from getting to see our friends and pigging out on unleavened bread, […]

i’m going to try and post more photos here, even though i’ve been pretty lousy about it lately. here’s a neat one i took last weekend over near watertown in the late afternoon. things i’m trying to do: 1) capture a diagonal [roof, clouds]- a book i’ve been reading about photo composition stresses that strong […]